The nominees in the four juried categories of the FIBD 42 have been announced, 35 “Official Selections”, 12 in the “comics for young readers” category, 10 in the “best reprint” category and 5 in the “mystery novel” aka Polar category (all descriptions are my own.) “Polar” which you see so often in various listing at Angoulême, as best I can make out, tarnslates as a “light mystery” or thriller category….kind of the popular genre in Franco-Belgian comics, as opposed to say, superheroes. If I’m wrong, please someone correct me.

The nominees include many international cartoonists including Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Lynda Barry, David Petersen, Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples, Taiyo Matsumoto, Asaf Hanuka and so on. I think there are many French cartoonists who are a bit better known in the US here listed as well, including Loisel, Brecht Evans, Hussenot and Blutch. It’s all an indication of how even local comics scenes have gone global in the last few years.

I’ve included the the French titles from the press release, but the covers will help sort out some of these for non French speakers.

Heidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In the past, she worked for Disney, DC Comics, Fox and Publishers Weekly. She can be heard regularly on the More To Come Podcast. She likes coffee, cats and noble struggle.

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Dear God, I hate posts like these. They mock me with all the stunning international work I have little hope of ever reading. Europe is so far ahead of America. I wish we respected the arts the way they do.